| Dr. Michael T. "Mick" Maurer is a crisis management expert prepared to train individuals to be resilient for themselves, their families and their businesses in New York and throughout the world in response to all hazards which include terrorism and other potential manmade/systemic/natural disasters. Mick is a Specialist in the areas of Crisis Management, Disaster Management Training, Mitigation, NIMS Training, Public Administration Education, Incidents of National Consequence Training, ICS Training, and Public Advocacy. As well as Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning, Trauma Counseling, Individual & Collective Responses to Disasters, CISD, EAP, and Research & Analysis Methods in Disaster Management. Specializing in the Impact of Violence, Disaster, and War & Terrorism upon Adolescent Development. |
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| Currently writing Managing the Aftermath of Disaster: Reducing the Social and Psychological Impact on Communities for Greenwood/Praeger Press. As a title in the Praeger Series Disaster Trauma Psychology. |
| Dr. Maurer has developed, for the Professional Studies Programs of the Paul McGhee Division of New York University’s School for Continuing & Professional Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Critical Infrastructure Protection degree program with concentrations in Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Strategic Intelligence, or Business Continuity. This degree will be taught entirely with distance technology. The Paul McGhee Division within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies was created especially for adult students who want to go back to college and earn their degrees. |
| (What's New?) - NYU Spring 2009 classes:
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| Dr. Maurer was the founder and the first director of the Metropolitan College of New York's Master of Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program. Established in the wake of 9/11, when the national landscape changed forever, an emphasis on security and crisis management was born. It was the first such graduate degree in New York State. When developed in 2003 only the 20th graduate degree in this academic field in the U.S. |
| "The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards." - Sir William Francis Butler |
| “First they 'suicide' bombed the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Crusaders, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Crusader. Then they came for the Shi'a, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Sunni. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.” - Rev. Martin Niemöller paraphrased (As suggested by Thomas L. Friedman NY Times OP-ED 11-16-2005) |
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September 10, 2006
Mick Maurer
| Training a Resilient Nation |
Freedom Tower in 2013
| "The Edge of Disaster”: Building a Resilient Nation Stephen E. Flynn Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Council on Foreign Relations "And then watching Katrina was really this other very disturbing tale. I can't come up with any terrorism scenario that gets close to that level of destruction. I mean, we're talking, with Katrina, 300,000 homes destroyed and an area of about 65,000 miles laid waste. And then Rita followed on with a counterpunch there -- less houses because it didn't hit as densely populated an area, a la New Orleans, but it was about another 65,000 houses, and almost an equivalent amount of square miles.... 1. we're most vulnerable to natural disasters. 2. the foundations that we rely on for modernity -- basically made us an advanced society -- themselves are becoming very frail. 3. the issue of the national security threat, which is the terrorism threat. And the more brittle we are, the more terrorism becomes appealing because you get a big bang for you buck -- the cascading effects that flow from it here. ..."resiliency" word means. And it basically -- resiliency is three parts. It's first being able to anticipate likely bad things that may happen. The second piece is being able to -- having a plan in advance to try to mitigate the consequences -- lower your exposure to something bad happening, and when it does happen, being able to respond quickly and restore. And the idea, though, about resiliency is that you can't stop everything that happens. What you can do is contain it from being truly disastrous. Disasters are a given. Catastrophes essentially are manmade by our acts of omission and commission -- the things we fail to do up front; the things we fail to prepare to do in the aftermath turn something into a true catastrophe. Of course, Katrina represented -- it was a hurricane. The real thing, though, that made it a catastrophe was the failure of a flood control system that nobody really decided was important to actually invest properly amounts into here." |
Emergency Management Memorial at NETC
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In August 2007 Mick Maurer was hired by the American Red Cross in Greater New York
to became the
Director, Disaster Training & Exercises
Department: Disaster Planning & Response
Location: Manhattan
Reports to: Senior Director, Planning & Preparedness
Start date: 4 September 2007
to became the
Director, Disaster Training & Exercises
Department: Disaster Planning & Response
Location: Manhattan
Reports to: Senior Director, Planning & Preparedness
Start date: 4 September 2007
